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Mark Bradford — Paper Works
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Field as Pressure
OBS-ART-069
Surface and Reflection
Atlas Index:
OBS-ART-069
Origin:
Los Angeles
Era:
2000s–present
Themes / Lineage:
surface weight • compression
Field Notes:
paper • pressure • surface
Quiet Modernism appears here as pressure maintained across a continuous field.

Field as Pressure

Mark Bradford — Paper Works

Density gathers across the surface.

Force accumulates.

Division does not occur.

What accumulates?
Pressure gathers across the field, but it never resolves into a break. Density increases without dividing the surface. What continues is compression sustained without release.

Pressure gathers across the field, but it never resolves into a break.

Density increases without dividing the surface.

What continues is compression sustained without release.

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